An edition of Faithful vision (2005)

Faithful vision

treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction

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An edition of Faithful vision (2005)

Faithful vision

treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction

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English
Pages
252

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Table of Contents

African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism
The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox
Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation
Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality
Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo
Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Baton Rouge
Series
Southern literary studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.509382
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 C643 2005, PS374.N4 C643 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
252

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3395558M
ISBN 10
0807130915
LCCN
2005007354
OCLC/WorldCat
58789924
LibraryThing
5964256
Goodreads
3627847

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL4647527W

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